Bracket



PATENTED SEPT. 20, 1904. J. F. KRESS, W. LOSHELDER, H. 0. GROSS & H. LOSHELDER, JR.

I BRACKET.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 28. 1904.

N0 MODEL.

WITNESSES:

ATTORNEYS NITED STATES Patented September 20, 1904.

PATENT Trice.

JOSEPH F. KRESS, WILLIAM LOSHELDER, HERMAN O. GROSS, AND HENRY LOSHELDER, JR, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

BRACKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 770,590, dated September 20, 1904.

Application filed April 28, 1904.

To all whom, it 77I/GLZ/ concern:

Be it known that we, J OSEPH F. KRnssW'IL- LIAM LosHELnER, I-IERIWIAN O. GRoss, and HENRY LOSHELDER, Jr., all citizens of the United States, and residents of Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Bracket, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description.

Our invention relates to brackets, being particularly directed to those for the support of curtains. Its principal object is to provide an adjustable mounting for the curtain-fixtures.

It consists in the various features and combinations hereinafter described and claimed.

, Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of a window-casing, to the opposite sides of which one embodiment of our invention is applied. Fig. 2 is a section through one of the brackets on the line 2 2 of Fig. 4. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of a bracket, and Fig. 4 is a sectional detail on the line 1 4 of Fig. 3.

W designates a window-casing, upon opposite sides of which are secured the brackets B and B. These brackets each consist of a plate 10, which may be provided with openings to receive retaining-screws 11 and with a horizontal angular portion 12-, to which is fixed a rod 13, here shown as in the form of a square bar. Upon the bar are mounted inner and outer blocks 14 and 15, respectively, each of which may be secured in place by a set-screw 16 threaded through it and having its end movable into contact with the rod. To the block 1a is fastened a fixture 17 of any desired form for the under curtain or shade,

I that of the bracket B being provided with the usual round opening 18, while the opposite fixture has the companion rectangular opening 19 to receive the spindles of the shaderoll. By the outer block is carried an arm 20, having a depending vertical portion 21 through which it is secured in place, and between the lower extremity of this depending Serial No. 205,300. (No model.)

portion and the outer end of the arm preferably extends astay 22. Upon the upper side of the arm rests an extension 23 from a socket or fixture 24, adapted to receive the pole of an over curtain or drapery, the end of this fixture being provided with the usual screw 25 for retaining said pole in place. Upon the inner end of the fixture extension is shown a loop 26, surrounding the arm,while through a longitudinal slot 27 in the extension projects a screw 28, passing through the slot and being threaded into the arm near its outer end. Each of the screws 16 and 28 are preferably provided with knurled heads of a suitable size to enable them to be readily grasped.

In use the brackets are fixed by their plates near opposite ends of the top bar of the window-casing, as is shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings, with the rod of each projecting outwardly from the companion bracket. The point of attachment of the rod to the angular portion of the plate is such that a space is left between said rod and the casing, which permits theshade-fixture slide to be moved freely and adjusted with relation to the edge of the window. The slide of the drapery-fixture operates .outside the edge of the casing and may also be moved laterally thereof upon the projecting end of the rod, while the fixture extension may be adjusted upon the arm in a plane substantially at right angles to that .in which its slide moves upon the rod to bring the drapery-pole in the desired relation to the window.

It will be seen that while our bracket is simple and inexpensive to construct it serves to support both the shade and drapery for windows of any width and for the application of various lengths of shade-rolls and drapery-poles after the brackets have been fixed in place, thus providing without change in position for the curtains of different users and I for variations in the position of draperies in accordance with different tastes.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A window-fixture comprising a securingplate, a rod extending transversely of said plate, a block having an opening through which the rod may pass, a bracket carried by the block and having an arm, a slotted extension movable upon the arm, and a screw passing through the slot and engaging the arm.

2. A window-fixture comprising a securingplate, a rod extending transversely of said plate, a block having an opening through which the rod may pass, a bracket carried by the block having an arm, a slotted extension movable upon the arm, a screw passing through the slot and engaging the arm, a second block movable upon the rod between the first-named block and the securing-plate, and a shade-fixture carried by the second block.

3. A window-fixture comprising a securingplate, a rod extending transversely of said plate, a block having an opening through which the rod may pass, a bracket having a JOSEPH F. KRESS. WILLIAM LOSHELDER. HERMAN O. GROSS. HENRY LOSHELDER, JR.

Witnesses KATIE VALLENEY, MARY OAHILL. 

